The moral question in Hamlet's soliloquy - To be or not to be..."The main question in 'To be or not to be' cannot be were, as many have noted, it would be dramatically irrelevant. Hamlet is no longer sunk in melancholy, as he was in his first soliloquy the words of the Ghost. The last time we saw him, only five minutes earlier, he was anticipating the spectacle of evening, and in just a few moments we'll see him eagerly instructing the players and eagerly telling Horatio of his plan to get him in. The point of debating whether or not to kill himself would be completely inconsistent with both character and plot movement. All metaphors suggest that Hamlet's choice is between...